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{{Climate initiative
|Name of initiative=One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)
|NAZCA Initiative=Yes
|Website address=www.op2b.org
|Starting year=2019
|Secretariat=Led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Emmanuel Faber, Chairman and CEO of Danone and Co-Chair of the Consumer Goods Forum
Contact:
Fellus@wbcsd.org; zimmermann@wbcsd.org
|Geographical coverage=Global
|Name of lead organisation=One Planet Business for Biodiversity
|Type of lead organisation=NGO/Civil Society
|LPAA Theme Transport=No
|LPAA Theme Agriculture=No
|LPAA Theme Forestry=No
|LPAA Theme Business=No
|LPAA Theme Financial institutions=No
|LPAA Theme Buildings=No
|LPAA Theme Industry=No
|LPAA Theme Waste=No
|LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=No
|LPAA Theme Short Term Pollutants=No
|LPAA Theme International maritime transport=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Supply=No
|LPAA Theme Fluorinated gases=No
|LPAA Theme Energy efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Renewable energy=No
|LPAA Theme Supply chain emission reductions=No
|LPAA Theme Adaptation=No
|LPAA Theme Other=Yes
|LPAA Theme Resilience=Yes
|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
|Description=One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) is a unique international cross-sectorial, action-oriented business coalition on biodiversity with a specific focus on agriculture, launched within French President Macron’s One Planet Lab framework. The coalition is determined to drive transformational systemic change and catalyze action to protect and restore cultivated and natural biodiversity within the value chains, engage institutional and financial decision makers, and develop and promote policy recommendations in the CBD COP 15 framework to be held in 2020.
|Goals=Leveraging and combining actions across their value chains to develop innovative solutions that safeguard biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
|Activities=three main areas of focus:
1. Scaling up regenerative agriculture practices to protect soil health.
Scaling up alternative farming practices that will leverage the power of plants to keep carbon in the soil (carbon sequestration), increase the capacity of soils to hold water, enhance the resilience of their crops, support the livelihoods of their farmers, and regain the nutrient density of food while decreasing reliance on synthetic inputs. This is what OP2B calls “regenerative agriculture”.
2. Developing product portfolios to boost cultivated biodiversity and increase the resilience of the food and agriculture models. Increasing the number of ingredients sourced so we are less reliant on just a handful of crops, further developing provenance-based and local sourcing, and expanding the genetic variety of crops grown to regain food diversity and localized biodiversity specificity in agriculture as a powerful lever to
protect and nurture biodiversity.
3. Eliminating deforestation, enhancing the management, restoration and protection of high value natural ecosystems. Defining specific actions within the value chains of OP2B members that can protect and restore the world’s most biodiversity-rich and fragile ecosystems, including grasslands, wetlands and forests.
|Participants companies number=0
|Participants business organisations number=0
|Participants business organisations names=Ahold Delhaize, Barry Callebaut, Danone,  DSM, Firmenich, Google (USA), Group Loccitane, Invivo, JDE,  Kering, Livelyhood Funds,  Loblaw Companies, MARS (USA), McCain, Migros Tigaret, Nestle (Switzerland), l'Oeal (France), Symrise, Unilever (USA), Walmart (USA), Yara

|Participants research and educational organisations number=0
|Participants non-governmental organisations number=0
|Participants national actors number=0
|Participants governmental actors number=0
|Participants regional actors number=0
|Participants municipal actors number=0
|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=0
|Participants financial institutions number=0
|Participants other members number=0
|Participants supporting partners number=0
|Number of members=
|Have only national states as participators=No
|Indicators information=
|Goals mai=While the impact of work from the three pillars of the OP2B coalition will extend through to 2030, its
members intend to demonstrate leadership progress by the 2020 Biodiversity COP15. These efforts will
include:
• By June 2020: Develop a compendium of systemic, meaningful, measurable solutions that can
be implemented by OP2B members in their value chains.
• By October 2020: Disclose ambitious, timebound and measurable commitments during CBD
COP15, together with policy proposals that would help to deliver successful outcomes.
|Available reporting=Press release: https://op2b.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OP2B_Press_release.pdf
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